Bill Gates Reveals His Father Suffers From Alzheimer’s Disease – and He’s Committing $100 Million to Stopping It

Bill Gates has revealed for the first time that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

Gates discussed his personal reasons for investing in the search for new treatments, revealing on a segment of the Today show that his 92-year-old father, Bill Gates Sr., suffers from the heartbreaking disorder that causes dementia.

PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 12: Bill Gates arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron as he receives the One Planet Summit’s international leaders at Elysee Palace on December 12, 2017 in Paris, France. Macron is hosting the One climate summit, which gathers world leaders, philantropists and other committed private individuals to discuss climate change. (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)

“I have a father who’s affected deeply by it. Only by solving problems like this can we take these medical costs and the human tragedy and really get those under control,” he told NBC’s Maria Shriver – whose father, the late Kennedy adviser and diplomat Sargent Shriver, also suffered from the disease.